Miguel Zumalacarregui

Miguel is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam since 2020. His current work lies at the intersection between two of Einstein’s key predictions: gravitational waves and gravitational lensing, the deflection and magnification of any signal (light, particles or gravitational waves) by intervening gravitational fields. He is particularly interested in finding novel signatures that help us identify lensed gravitational waves, and using the information to characterize dark matter and dark energy, the unknown substances that make up 95% of the universe. Before coming to Potsdam, Miguel was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, the Nordic Insitute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm and the Institute for Theoretical Phyisics in Heidelberg. He obtained his degree at the Autonomous University of Madrid.